“…AVAs are common in many cutaneous vascular beds (e.g., hindlinb: Bostroem and Schodel, 1953;bird foot: Schumacher, 1916;Grant and Bland, 1930;digits: Grosser, 1902;Grant and Bland, 1930;Popoff, 1934;Barbolini et al, 1971;human. ear: Richard and Daniel, 1956), as well as in the nasal mucosa (Dawes and Richard, 1953;Cauna, 1970) and tongue (Brown, 1937;Prichard and Daniel, 1953), and have been implicated as playing a major role in temperature regulation (Hoyer, 1877;Grant, 1930;Grant and Bland, 1930;Burton, 1939;Hales et al, 1978).…”